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		<title>Sandy Hook Viewpoint: Should Teachers Be Trained in Counterterrorism?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday morning and murdered 20 children and six adults, my sister was already a teacher on edge and in mourning. The night before, in the parking lot of her high school in the Pacific Northwest, a 16-year-old student from her first-period class shot and killed himself. Three months earlier, her school had been forced to close for a day after a former student made a threat on social media to “open fire on people in the commons in the morning until I am either taken down by the school’s police officer, or until I run out of [ammunition].” He was arrested before he could do any harm. Still, my sister’s experiences are one more reminder of the outsize specter gun violence has become for educators. Rampage killers target schools in order to deliver that worst-of-all blow to society’s gut, the massacre of children. But I’ve covered a number of school shootings, starting with Laurie Dann’s 1988 spree at Hubbard Woods Elementary School outside Chicago, and I’m all too aware of a daunting reality that confronts teachers like my sister — and my wife and my mother. On the one hand, they’re as vulnerable as their pupils; on the other hand, they’re the only first line of defense between kids and killers. (MORE: Sandy Hook Shooting: Why Did Lanza Target a School?) That was the case at Sandy Hook, where teachers were credited with quick thinking that saved children’s lives. Administrators are under increasing pressure today to put metal detectors and other expensive measures in place that we think will keep armed monsters out of our schools. But as we saw at Sandy Hook, which had recently ramped up its security infrastructure, they hardly make schools impregnable — and school shootings, meanwhile, seem to have become as frequent as science fairs. Which, as long we lack the national spine to confront the gun lobby, raises a depressing but urgent question: Is shielding children now as essential a part of teachers’ portfolios as<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=98739&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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